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From the author of 20th century boys and Monster comes a new mystery. Set post world-war II. The summary from one manga:

Billy Bat is a comic-in-a-comic and the real protagonist is a Japanese-American artist named Kevin Yamagata who draws Billy Bat for "Marble Comics".

Shortly after they transition to the artist in his studio as two actual detectives, who look like Laurel and Hardy in Dick Tracy era suits and trench coats, knock on the door and appropriate Kevin's room for the purpose of conducting surveillance on a room in an adjacent building. One of the detectives, the skinny “Laurel”, sees Kevin's work and it turns out he's a Billy Bat fan. The other chubby "Hardy" detective picks up a page and says that the characters look familiar and accuses Kevin of translating an old "Jap" comic.

As Hardy remembers the comic he thinks Kevin is ripping off, the story jumps off to 1949 Tokyo.

So far the first 13 chapters are available scanlated.

It bears many of the same traits Urisawa's previous works did, An intriguing plot, a confused main character running around mostly useless and playing into the enemy's hands until the very end(at least that's what i think). I dunno i just feel that this is going too similar in the way of his previous works, And i can just tell that many plot points wont be explained at the end, like they weren't in 20th century boys and monster.

But ill still keep reading it because not many mangakas can create a suspenseful story as Urisawa and the pace so far has been great. I'd definitely recommend it if you were a fan of monster and 20th Century boys.

The first betrayer shown wasnt Judas? The kid turns out to be the real Judas. Then Jesus asks him to betray him and then the cycle begins and this time he takes the place of the man he was helping, Then the bat appears and says something about not meeting him? Its all so confusing, Then again its Urisawa.

And now the story set in 59', With the bi-racial couple and the taxi driver, Its obvious theres a connection between those who can hear the voice of the Bat, though if its the evil bat or the good bat is another question.

Also its been revealed that his assistant took Kevin's credit for making the cartoon which seems to now be as big as disney. This means either Kevin is either dead or living the hobo life somewhere, Probably the latter.

Now were in the sengoku period of Japan following the story of these ninja's. Its giving me vibes of 20th century boys were he's reminiscing about his past along with killing the friends he holds dear. Now in the next chapter i think he'll kill the axe dude and escape with the scroll.

I read some chapters of Billy Bat, I must continue to read it! I finished Monster, 20th/21st century boys and Pluto, these mangas are awesome.
What I read about Billy Bat was good, so I will continue, for sure!

New chapter is amazing, man the way urasawa weaves together these characters and their tales is so masterful and impressive, Cant wait for the next one to come out.I hope the viewpoints will continue to alternate.

Interesting, So the highest levels of government are after the scroll as well. With all the various factions in the future and past trying to gain control of the scroll, You gotta wonder what Xavier really drew.

What a great way to end the momochi scroll arc, it's way more interesting if you go and read some japanese history on these figures.
And now the story moves to Kennedy's killer, It's just exciting to see Urasawa spin these characters in his own way. Its just so intriguing and mysterious and a joy to read.

So far I am not enjoying this manga as much as I did with 20th Century Boys but it's pretty damned addicting nevertheless. I am not much of a manga reader but I read al lthe available chapters in a few days. I think the problem is that it skips from a character to character a bit too much without developing them much. It was better at first when it was mainly from Kevin's PoV, then in the latter half it started to jump timelines and change PoVs too often. I know that Monster and 20CB had many, many characters, I just don't see the Billy bat ones as early that well developed. Yet.

Spoiler for up to ch.32:

This Oswald storyline is reminding me of the pope assassination storyline of 20th Century Boys, hopefully there will be a nice twist in the end as it was in that case.

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